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Our Emerging Markets Family Office Forum, held in Singapore in October 2026, explored continuity and change, innovation and exploration, geopolitics and diversification. Watch the highlights above for key takeaways from our Private Bank leaders in Emerging Markets.
Around 200 family offices and wealthy individuals gathered in Singapore for Deutsche Bank’s Emerging Markets Family Office Forum 2026 to explore the major forces shaping global wealth, investment and capital allocation.
Themed ‘The Long Game: Capital, Conviction and Continuity’, the forum covered geopolitics and macroeconomics, the evolution of artificial intelligence, defence and sovereignty, entrepreneurship and multigenerational wealth, as well as how lessons from history can help make sense of the forces shaping today’s world.
Global wealth and investment in a changing world
In opening remarks, Deutsche Bank Chief Executive Officer of Asia-Pacific, Europe, Middle East & Africa and Member of the Management Board, Alexander von zur Mühlen, said: “Global trade is not retreating, it is rewiring. Companies and countries are diversifying partners, strengthening links, and opening new corridors. In this environment Asia Pacific stands at the centre of opportunity. At the same time, we are also seeing renewed global interest in Europe, including from this region. Capital does not move only from Europe to Asia. Increasingly, it moves the other way as well.”
Singapore’s role as a global family office and wealth centre
Singapore’s Minister of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of National Development, and Board Member of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, Alvin Tan, joined as a guest speaker to discuss new developments in Singapore’s financial sector and opportunities for family offices in a conversation moderated by Deutsche Bank’s Global Chief Investment Officer Christian Nolting and Global Head of Emerging Markets Research, Sameer Goel.
Family offices on economic and geopolitical risks
According to a live poll of the Forum audience by Deutsche Bank’s Global Chief Investment Officer Christian Nolting (CIO), 37 per cent of family offices saw rates and yields as the greatest risk to global economic growth, followed by inflation (23 per cent) and AI risk (17 per cent). This compared to 5 per cent who saw risk in AI at the 2025 Forum.
In the CIO poll, when the Family Office audience was asked about geopolitical risk, 73 per cent saw Asia as the most stable geopolitical region for the next 12 months, followed by the US (14 per cent), UK/ Europe (6 per cent), Latin America (4 per cent) and Middle East (2 per cent).
Singapore and the needs of international families
Head of Emerging Markets for the Private Bank, Marco Pagliara said: “International families and their Family Offices are seeking stability, risk mitigation strategies and global connectivity, and Singapore has emerged as one of the clear favourites as a global wealth centre in this changing world.”
Deutsche Bank’s global Family Office Forum series
Deutsche Bank’s Family Office Forum provides a platform for stewards of ultra-high net worth (UHNW) family wealth to network and delve into the major trends shaping the direction of investment markets and capital allocation.
This is the third edition of the invitation-only event in Asia, and forms part of Deutsche Bank’s global Family Office series.
